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Summary

Wise Package Studio Professional by Wise Solutions, Symantec®/Altiris

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Distribute your software installations with ease. Wise Package Studio is designed for system administrators to streamline the process of preparing software applications for deployment. It combines best practice methodologies with advanced software installation technology, giving system administrators complete control over installations. You can migrate applications to Windows Installer (.MSI) through project and application management, repackaging, customization, validation, testing and dispersing to distribution systems. In return you receive error-free, reliable deployments that cut your packaging efforts. Professional Edition supports .ZAP files, Virtual Package Editor, Mobile Device Package Editor and many more.

Overview

Wise Package Studio Professional Edition is an advanced packaging solution providing complete functionality for creating and customizing packages and managing and eliminating application conflicts. When you need Quality Assurance tools or Enterprise Management capabilities, Professional Edition provides the ideal starting point for adding extended functionality through Wise Package Studio's add-on modules.

For differences between editions, please refer to the Feature Grid document from the Evals & Downloads page.

AddOn Modules

Quality Assurance - Reduces rollout risk and ensure applications deploy error free

Quality Assurance provides a complete set of automated testing tools that make testing in the real-world and lab environment fast, accurate and economical

Enterprise Management Server

Enterprise Management Server provides a suite of sophisticated project management and collaboration capabilities that allow you to share and manage resources. Whether you manage a single packaging team or numerous teams across the globe, you can now effectively work together and streamline the packaging process

Note: If you're purchasing both modules, please refer Wise Package Studio Suite Edition which includes Wise Package Studio Professional, Quality Assurance Module and Enterprise Management Server.

Patch Preparation and Testing

You can quickly prepare patches for error-free deployments with Wise Package Studio 6, using a four-phase process. With Wise Package Studio you can:

Quickly assess the impact the patch will have on the production environment

Create a focused, efficient test plan based on patch impact assessment

Perform lab-based functional testing and "test fly" the patch in production without risk

Perform a risk assessment to see if the deployed patch installed as intended, and quickly remedy any problems

Distributed Computing

Multiple packaging teams need fast, easy access to shared files and common packaging tasks. With distributed computing support, enterprise-level use of Wise Package Studio is much faster and efficient because common packaging tasks, such as compiling and importing, are run from the server.

Preflight Deployment

Preflight Deployment allows you to determine—before deployment — if an application or patch will succeed or fail by testing it in your real-world environment. With Preflight Deployment, you can see why deployments fail on specific machines without disrupting end users or endangering your production environment.

Standard Operating Environment

Now you can include your organization's standard operating environment (SOE) as a protected entity within the Wise Software Repository. By storing your organization's core desktop image in the repository, you can check for conflicts against it during the conflict management process. Applications conflicting with the SOE are highlighted, allowing packagers to easily modify the application to ensure conformance with organizational standards.

Language Pack

Wise Package Studio includes Language Pack.

What's New in Wise Package Studio 8.0

Support for Windows 7, including Windows 7 Migration Toolkit

Support for Windows XP SP3

Support for Windows Vista SP1

Support for Windows Server 2008 R2

Support for Windows Server 2008 SP2

Support for SQL Server 2008

Support for versions 3.0 and 3.5 of .NET framework

Redistributable support for Windows Installer 4.5

Support for new Internal Consistency Evaluation (package validation) rules from Microsoft

What's New in V7.0?

Software Virtualization Support (SVS) - Wise Package Studio 7 now supports creating, editing, and managing packages for virtual applications

Support for packaging virtual applications - Wise Package Studio 7 utilizes Altiris Software Virtualization Solution technology to create and manage packages for virtual applications

Quality Assurance Enhancements - Wise Package Studio's functionality for assuring quality software packages now utilizes virtualization technology and supports testing of Linux packages

WiseScript enhancements - WiseScript tool, which administrators use to create utilities, has been enhanced

For more details about What's New, please refer to the What's New in V7.0 document from the Evals & Downloads page.

Distribute your software installations with ease.

Evals & Downloads: Read the Wise Package Studio to AdminStudio for Symantec migration document, Read the Wise Package Studio What's New in V7.0, Read the Wise Package Studio Release Notes, Read the Wise Package Studio Overview, See the Wise Package Studio Feature Grid, Read the Wise Package Studio Getting Started Guide, Read the Windows Installer Editor Guide, Read the Wise Package Studio Reference, Wise Package Studio Help files, Read the Wise Package Studio License Agreement

Operating System for Deployment: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0

Architecture of Product: 32Bit

Product Type: Application

Compatible Containers: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, .NET Framework 3.5, .NET Framework 3.0

Product Class: Component Development Tools

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